What's the best novel in the past 25 years?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Corregidora, by Gayl Jones is great.  I read it years ago in college (in Toni Morrison's class, no less) and it's unforgettable.  It's a short, brutal take on slavery and race/sex power. 

Laura

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>From: bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>Sent: Oct 8, 2006 11:27 AM
>To: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: What's the best novel in the past 25 years?

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>Shirley Hazzard is wonderful - I was trying to remember her name for 
>that last post of good women writers.   A.S. Byatt is there,  of 
>course, as is Ali Smith and Angela Carter.   Fwiw,   Pat Barker and 
>Buchi Emecheta are women.
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>Bekah
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>At 3:07 PM +0300 10/8/06, Ya Sam wrote:
>>A recent poll in the New York Times named Toni Morrison's Beloved as 
>>the greatest work of American fiction in the past 25 years. But what 
>>about over here? On the eve of this year's Booker Prize, we asked 
>>150 literary luminaries to vote for the best British, Irish or 
>>Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005. How they defined 'best' was up 
>>to them ...
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>>http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1890247,00.html
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